Design Teams and Personality : Effects of Team Composition on Processes and Effectiveness
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Design teams and personality : effects of team composition on processes and effectiveness Citation for published version (APA): Peeters, M. A. G. (2006). Design teams and personality : effects of team composition on processes and effectiveness. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. https://doi.org/10.6100/IR608719 DOI: 10.6100/IR608719 Document status and date: Published: 01/01/2006 Document Version: Publisher’s PDF, also known as Version of Record (includes final page, issue and volume numbers) Please check the document version of this publication: • A submitted manuscript is the version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can be important differences between the submitted version and the official published version of record. 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Sep. 2021 Design Teams and Personality Effects of Team Composition on Processes and Effectiveness Miranda Peeters CIP-DATA LIBRARY TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN Peeters-Baars, Maria Adriana Gerarda Design teams and personality : effects of team composition on processes and effectiveness / by Maria Adriana Gerarda Peeters-Baars. œ Eindhoven : Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, 2006. œ Proefschrift. - ISBN 90-386-0653-2 ISBN 978-90-386-0653-8 NUR 771 Keywords: Design team composition / Design processes / Personality / Big Five / Design team effectiveness Printed by Universiteitsdrukkerij Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Cover design: Miranda Peeters/ Paul Verspaget Cover illustration: Daan Peeters © 2006, Miranda A. G. Peeters, Son All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author. ii Design Teams and Personality Effects of Team Composition on Processes and Effectiveness PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, op gezag van de Rector Magnificus, prof.dr.ir. C.J. van Duijn, voor een commissie aangewezen door het College voor Promoties in het openbaar te verdedigen op dinsdag 21 maart 2006 om 16.00 uur door Maria Adriana Gerarda Peeters-Baars geboren te Utrecht iii Dit proefschrift is goedgekeurd door de promotor: prof.dr. C.G. Rutte Copromotoren: dr. H.F.J.M. van Tuijl en dr.ir.arch. I.M.M.J. Reymen iv Acknowledgements First of all, I owe gratitude to Christel, Harry and Isabelle. W ithout them this dissertation would not be and most certainly not with the quality it has now. Christel, I thank you for bringing focus to my work and for your brain waves -that almost never failed to pop up- which lifted this research to a higher level. Harrie, I thank you for your theoretical and textual scrutiny and for allowing me a peak at a more bright future when I got stuck in some more or less futile detail. Isabelle, I thank you for introducing me to the theory and practice of the world of designers via your design expertise and for the way we could exchange experiences as junior and less junior scientist. Secondly, this dissertation would also not have been if it were not for the many (student) design team members that volunteered to participate in my research. I thank the professional designers for participating in my interviews and the student designers for filling out my questionnaires even if their practical engineering spirit made them fail to see the use of what I was asking them. I thank them all for their time, answers, and perseverance. Furthermore, I would like to thank the supervisors and coordinators that allowed me to contact the students via their courses. I particularly thank Johan Buyser, Harm van Essen, Harmen Kragt, Rob Kusters, Leo Monhemius, Marius Moonen, Ton Valstar, and Noud Vermeulen in Eindhoven, Ernest van Breemen and Henk Kuipers in v Delft, and Herman Soemers and Rene van Helden (and his colleague Createch coordinators) in Twente. Thirdly, I thank all my past and present HPM T-Room colleagues for making me feel like going to work every day of my PhD-project. I especially enjoyed our off-work activities. Some special words have to be devoted to the U43-connection here. Harm, sharing a room with you for about two-and-a-half year has offered me a new and enriching perspective on many things which I would not have wanted to miss for the world. Ad and Harm, I will always cherish my memories of our Istanbul dinner, I had great fun (and so did the waiters, I guess). Ad, I dedicate Table 5.2 to you in appreciation of your help during a tough final stage. I hope the U43-connection will stand the test of time. Josette, I thank you for our teamwork in gathering data and working together on our non PhD-research project. Furthermore, I thank you for always promptly and thoroughly addressing my methodological questions. Fourthly, I thank Anniek for enabling me to present the chapters in this dissertation and manuscripts taken from it in letter-perfect English. I also thank Jeannie for checking my Dutch summary. Finally, I thank Bas for acquitting himself very well from the terrible task of inspecting the final draft of this dissertation right down to the very last detail. Dear Bas, as I said when asking you to do so: There is no one I would entrust this task to more than you. Thank you! My final words are for those dearest to me: Rob, Laure, Daan, and Guus. Although having finished this project fills me with pride and joy, nothing does so more than coming home to you every day and sharing time with you just as you are. Laure, Daan, and Guus, I thank you for all your hugs, sweet notes, encouraging words, and beautiful drawings that made me realize time and again what wonderful persons you are. Rob, the way you have supported me throughout these four years is in my view exactly what love is all about, 100 X 000. Miranda vi Contents Acknowledgements v Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Type of Team studied 3 1.2 Design Team Members' Personality 4 1.3 Design Processes 6 1.4 Design Team Effectiveness 7 1.5 Overview of this Dissertation 7 Chapter 2 Personality and Team Performance: A M eta-Analysis 9 2.1 Criterion Measure: Team Performance 11 2.2 Predictor Measures 11 2.3 Hypotheses 13 2.4 Method 20 2.5 Results 22 2.6 Discussion 30 Chapter 3 The Big Five Personality Traits and Satisfaction with the Team 35 3.1 Individual Satisfaction with the Team 37 vii Contents 3.2 The Big Five Personality Traits 38 3.3 Analyzing the Effects of Team Composition in Terms of Personality 39 3.4 Hypotheses 41 3.5 Method 46 3.6 Results 50 3.7 Discussion 54 Chapter 4 Design Behavior in Teams: The Construction of M easurement Scales and a Practical Application 59 4.1 Study 1 Task Analysis on Designing in Multidisciplinary Teams 63 4.2 Study 2 Constructing the Design Behavior Questionnaire for Teams 69 4.3 Discussion 75 Chapter 5 Designing in Teams: Does Personality M atter? 87 5.1 Design Team Performance 88 5.2 Design Processes 90 5.3 This Study 93 5.4 Method 95 5.5 Results 102 5.6 Discussion 108 Chapter 6 General Discussion 115 6.1 The Relationship between Team Composition in Terms of the Big Five Personality Traits and Team Outcomes 118 6.2 The Relationship between Team Composition in Terms of the Big Five Personality Traits and Design Processes 125 6.3 Implications for Design team Practice and Education 132 References 137 Summary 149 Samenvatting (summary in Dutch) 155 About the author 161 viii Chapter 1 Introduction 'The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.' N. W . Dougherty, 1955 'Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.' Brian Tracy Technology has considerably gained in complexity since the year Dougherty expressed his thought. Nowadays, it is hardly possible anymore for a single engineer to possess all relevant disciplinary knowledge and single-handedly integrate it to come up with successful technological designs.